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authorDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>2009-01-15 16:50:57 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 19:39:37 -0500
commit158bc69effbf96f59c01cdeb20f8d4c184e59f8e (patch)
tree001dc5f61d6b08445c7e1676468c1bcaa7788921 /drivers/misc/sgi-xp
parentcafa1d8b0c90252e73f20db1b6f32cf88e73ff17 (diff)
sgi-xp: eliminate false detection of no heartbeat
After XPC has been up and running on multiple partitions for any length of time, if XPC on one of the partitions is stopped and restarted (either by a rmmod/insmod or a system restart), it is possible for the XPCs running on the other partitions to falsely detect a lack of heartbeat from the XPC that was just restarted. This false detection will occur if the restarted XPC comes up within the five-seconds preceding one of the other XPC's heartbeat check (which occurs once every twenty seconds). The detection of no heartbeat results in the detecting XPC deactivating from the just restarted XPC. The only remedy is to restart one of the XPCs and hope that one doesn't hit this five-second window on any of the other partitions. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/sgi-xp')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
index 73b7fb8de47a..82fb9958f22f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ xpc_update_partition_info_sn2(struct xpc_partition *part, u8 remote_rp_version,
899 dev_dbg(xpc_part, " remote_vars_pa = 0x%016lx\n", 899 dev_dbg(xpc_part, " remote_vars_pa = 0x%016lx\n",
900 part_sn2->remote_vars_pa); 900 part_sn2->remote_vars_pa);
901 901
902 part->last_heartbeat = remote_vars->heartbeat; 902 part->last_heartbeat = remote_vars->heartbeat - 1;
903 dev_dbg(xpc_part, " last_heartbeat = 0x%016lx\n", 903 dev_dbg(xpc_part, " last_heartbeat = 0x%016lx\n",
904 part->last_heartbeat); 904 part->last_heartbeat);
905 905